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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 37m

Like, I know why he's there but my first thought was "Oh cool that's the Modern Knight guy from YouTube!"

Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thank you so much! I, too, have lost a lot of my copies in the chaos of my flat! Even my favourite one with the Skydra cover!

The main character of The Island With No Name reaches towards a pensive looking mini dragon guarding a gemstone.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Final episode of The Island With No Name went out this week in The Phoenix. It was this first big comic project I took on and I learned so much doing it! I've got a bit of work to do on a potential collected edition coming out next year!

A character and their dog fly over a bright, colourful shoreline using feathered wings tied to bamboo.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I can find any number of AI agents to recommend a film. But the BBC could be getting Mark Kermode to curate a list of the best British horror films, and that would be infinitely preferable. Or Bob Mortimer’s favourite comedies. Or Nigella’s cooking shows, or whatever.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Aside from what people have already said, I think the tasks themselves aren't quite inviting the same level of chaos. I had to rewind a few because I didn't quite see where the "catch" was (like the boiler room). The hide and seek task could have been glorious, but only Chloe's had any fun to it.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All I could think of. But here in the UK the prices are practically monocle popping levels as well. I've completely given up on consoles or being able to upgrade my old PC, and I've been on a diet of indie games that don't need extra RAM or a new SSD.

Australian father from the Simpsons shouting 900 Dollarydoos

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unfortunately, I think the response will be "lol get an agent to access services on your behalf". And by refusing to do so you'll just be frozen out of stuff. The amount of reluctant AI compliance I've seen where people feel like they don't have a choice, esp professionally. But we'll see.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have this feeling that many people are going to live more and more offline lives if being online becomes too much of a hassle. Like, I get that the world over the last 30 years has been built around this but only because it worked so well. I dunno what would replace it...

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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My policy hot take: If you‘re involved with making comics, you should be given priority booking for Bayeux Tapestry tickets.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Social media accounts that auto-follow based on keywords are the worst. Last night I did an anxiety-led post talking about some albums I love to try and avoid spiralling into gloom over the whole A I music thing, and today I wake up to find several A I music accounts following me. Easy blocks.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm done dumping albums now. I could have gone on all night, but I havet to draw comics tomorrow.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The last boss: Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere. I don't usually like it this heavy, but there's something in here thats playful and epic. Going from brutal chaos to Pink Floyd dreaminess. If you can get through the first three minutes - strap in.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part Outside of cranky legend Nick Cave's usual emotive frankness - it's Warren Ellis' album (not the sex pest comic writer, the Australian violinist) for me. The mourning strings underpin everything but erupt beautifully on We Came Along This Road.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part. A crude painting of flowers on a black background.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Opeth - Pale Communion I don't want to do two from the same band, but many consider this era to be a different band, derisively called Newpeth. Their loss. It's incredible. Big symphonic journeys through an mystical landscape with a suprisingly emotional core. Faith in Others is mesmerising.

Opeth - Pale Communion. A number of religious/occult looking paintings hang on a stone wall.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Blood Ceremony - Lord of Misrule Okay, let's do a fun one. I first heard bits of this album on a friend's playlist "Songs to Do Kung Fu in Your Dressing Gown To" but it's more like "Songs to Get a Satyr to Come and Jazz up Your Halloween Party with a Flute". Consult the alt text for more info.

Blood Ceremony - Lord of Misrule. A bunch of stoners who live next door are about to do mushrooms and talk to the devil - you're cool, right?

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps Speaking of Phoebe. I get the feeling a lot of these songs aren't aimed at me, but damn. Definitely contains sad.

Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps. That ghost is just a kid in a sheet. Standing in a field looking sad. You'll be sad too if you listen to this album. But it might help.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface Probably the most well known MO album (thanks Phoebe Bridgers - who did a beaut cover of The Gold). Both expansive and intimate, telling the story of a forgotten town and tragedy. Open to interpretation with a dark current but weirdly beautiful.

Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface. A shadowy figure hangs from a bare branch of a stripped tree pointing to the sky. A lot of trees in this collection.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lunatic Soul - Through Shaded Woods If you ever played The Witcher 3 and thought "I wish there was a experimental progressive folk rock album from Poland that sounded like the music in this game" - do I have a treat for you. It's this.

Lunatic Soul - Through Shaded Woods - a surreal shape twists in the air in a dark forest.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Agalloch - The Mantle One for the patient who don't mind a LITTLE bit of growling (but over lovely guitar?). The main track is 15 minutes long and is about arguing against nihilism by taking in nature and possibly being a druid. I DON'T KNOW. But it's incredible.

Agalloch - The Mantle - a statue of a deer under barren trees.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Counting Crows - August and Everything After Come on! I can be basic but I was in LOVE with this album as a teenager. I still think it's deserving of the hype, even if it doesn't have the Shrek song on there. Contains megaton sad in the form of Perfect Blue Buildings.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I couldn't decide whether All Eternals Deck or Heretic Pride was the most autumnal Mountain Goats offer (they've a lot of albums). If you're not familiar with John Darnielle - it's punky folk music with heartbreak and humour swirled together. Both have sad but also humour and wit.

The cover to Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck - it's the band and album title in a culty art deco font on a black background.

Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride written over a foreboding cloud.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Damnation by Opeth Opeth always dabbled in softer harmonies (even on their early albums that sound like a possessed buzzsaw). A lot of this album doesn't even have distorted guitairs. Instead it's a forlorn trek through beautiful and inventive progressive rock melodies. Also has sad.

Damnation by Opeth. A ghostly photograph of what looks like a dll in a bright room. It's quite eerie.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fevers and Mirrors by Bright Eyes This is not Bright Eyes best album, but it's the most atmospheric. There's a lot of angsty lyrics (Conor Oberst was barely out of high school) but the album transports you to place full of haunted youth treading across creaking floorboads. Warning, has sad.

The cover of Fevers and Mirrors by Bright Eyes. An opaque antique mirror hangs on a wallparer with a pastoral pattern.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's been a bleh day for my anxieties but its now October and officially the start of "sitting inside with a jumper and mug of hot something looking out at the rain" season. To counter the AI music discourse I'm gonna post some autumnal or spooky albums I like...

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I like this song, but I wish it was personalised by a robot to be about me.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's always great to table at Thought Bubble (C40 Bubble Boy, bring money), but the curse is that I've never actually been to any of the workshops or talks! Look at this stuff, incredible.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can't be the only person who sees YouTube videos from the 2010s and gets slightly emotional because they're pre AI human craft? I'm here watching random anime openings to forgotten shows with names like"Help! I'm in Love with my Mecha Building Senpai". A single tear running down my cheek.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can't believe a company named after Saruman's orb would do something like this. Disappointed tbh, they've lost a customer. I'll be taking my business elsewhere and encouraging all my friends in the despotic tyrant facebook group to do the same.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You'll probably be fine, I checked last year and I got the 18.54 train to London via Leeds. I had time for a pint with a friend before the train so 18.35 and no pint is definitely doable.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'd book ahead either way, but I've never found them to be chaotically crowded (like before and after Christmas - yikes!). However you want to maybe book for 7ish. I've found its nice to not feel rushed and you can say goodbye to everyone and maybe grab a snack etc.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I dunno how to explain it, but this kinda reminds me of how video games used to be lit. Not just PBR and some key lights and call it a day, like actual places. Really wanna try Deadlock! I'm rubbish at the sort of game but the art direction is everything I love.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm on it! Currently working on a sci-fi comic series for kids and every ship is designed by me and mocked up with basic shapes in Blender for reference use (no auto tracing here... though it would save me time :D) Unfortunately, I have zero engineering knowledge so very little technical thought!

A comic page showing an old captain finding a spaceship buried in the rocks.

A comic page showing an bulky spaceship rising out of the clouds, with a captain agressively asking a boy about a stolen map.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The tragedy of discovering the Uncanny podcast quite late and having so many THEORIES about episodes that are several months or years old.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In the space of five years we've gone from computers that can be relied on to give the same response each time, to a scattershot guessing machine that might accidently give your address to a stranger. But it's okay, it can cobble together an apology!

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm in public and just started cry laughing while reading this. There's an M&S literally five minutes walk away...

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of old cartoons I watched as a kid had things in them I just assumed was cartoon specific stuff. Like those pump action railway platforms or cartoon animals going AROOOGA whenever they saw an attractive cat or dog. But apparently all that stuff was a common sight in Tex Avery's time.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I used to get these when I worked in business events and it was so nakedly transparent because they'd be offering us lists we the organisers didn't have yet. As with everything, AI has made this type of scam almost automated.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyone else just get a sponsored message on WhatsApp? And follow up question, which message app are we all gonna switch to when it becomes 50% adverts like every other Meta thing?

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In my opinion he's a hugely underrated artist. Lake of Fire is one of my absolute favourite miniseries.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think this is, at its core, is one of the big reasons AIs fabled economic benefits have not materialised. Even in a world where the output was good and ethical and yada yada, no one will buy it from you because they have access to the same systems you used to churn it out.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In an alternate timeline we'd have just enjoyed Zach Cregger's Dino Crisis

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Resident Evil was a lot of fun! Great to watch with a big audience (one moment in the film even got a spontaneous round of applause!) The Evil Dead comparisons are appropriate - it's less schlocky and slapstick, but just as chaotic and entertaining.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've avoided this so far by turning kids in to nemeses instead of fans. So every time I meet one I've met before I get a Shadow of Mordor style cut-scene where they shout: "Oi, there's that artist what did that bad drawing in my signature book!" It's been very helpful if a little terrifying.

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 18/09/2026

i don't know who is buying these folding phones. you have enough screens buddy. look around the room there are least 2-4 of them within ten feet. get less screens idiot

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have lots of shitty 30 second FLStudio tracks that I wouldn't wish on anyone but I had immense fun putting together.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Whiskers! They used to be a fun accent in the old times. A way to create a folksy/crafty vibe (ironically). Now, like much of our visual language they have become irreversibly cursed along with scratchy retro fonts and eggshell white colouring.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Does Unc mean "uncool" or "uncle-like"? I can't get a straight answer

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is an incredible piece of work.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am not joking when I say my next phone will be one of those basic ones that only has messaging apps on it. I'm giving up on being in the loop, so it'll be a nice surprise when my skull is the one that gets crushed at the start of the Terminator-esque future. My ghost will be like:

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Leonardo DiCaprio Pointing Meme

ALT: Leonardo DiCaprio Pointing Meme

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I made the mistake of scrolling left on my Google phone and was greeted with this AI summary of a news article. The band Muse is completely unrelated to the story, of course. This is the technology they've been ramping up the Skynet rhetoric about this month.

An AI article summary about an AI tool called Muse featuring an AI image of the unrelated band Muse.

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